"21. Will the new unitary patent regime facilitate the patenting of computer programmes?
The patentability requirements for European patents with unitary effect are identical to those of "classical" European patents. The envisaged regulation on unitary patent protection does not contain any particular disposition or derogation on the patentability conditions for inventions.
As to the patentability of software, Article 52(2) of the European Patent Convention provides that programs for computers do not constitute a patentable invention. However, patentability is only excluded for programs for computers 'as such'.
An invention which involves the use of a computer, a computer network or other programmable apparatus, where one or more features are realised wholly or partly by means of a computer program (so called computer-implemented inventions, "CII") can be patented if it fulfils the strict patentability requirements, in particular, it must have a technical character, be new and make an inventive technical contribution to the knowledge available at the date on which the application was first filed."
Le dernier bloc montre bien que c'est bien l'objectif avoué de valider la jurisprudence de l'OEB à la place de faire une directive, car l' "effet technique" est une invention de l'OEB qui n'a pas de base légale.
# Communiqué de presse de la Commission Européenne sur le Brevet Unitaire
Posté par Benjamin Henrion (site web personnel) . En réponse à la dépêche Manifestation contre le Brevet Logiciel Unitaire, jeudi 12 décembre 2019 à Bruxelles. Évalué à 1.
J'ai retrouvé ce communiqué de presse de la Commission Européenne:
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/fr/MEMO_12_970
"21. Will the new unitary patent regime facilitate the patenting of computer programmes?
The patentability requirements for European patents with unitary effect are identical to those of "classical" European patents. The envisaged regulation on unitary patent protection does not contain any particular disposition or derogation on the patentability conditions for inventions.
As to the patentability of software, Article 52(2) of the European Patent Convention provides that programs for computers do not constitute a patentable invention. However, patentability is only excluded for programs for computers 'as such'.
An invention which involves the use of a computer, a computer network or other programmable apparatus, where one or more features are realised wholly or partly by means of a computer program (so called computer-implemented inventions, "CII") can be patented if it fulfils the strict patentability requirements, in particular, it must have a technical character, be new and make an inventive technical contribution to the knowledge available at the date on which the application was first filed."
Le dernier bloc montre bien que c'est bien l'objectif avoué de valider la jurisprudence de l'OEB à la place de faire une directive, car l' "effet technique" est une invention de l'OEB qui n'a pas de base légale.